How To Use Golf Training Aids To Train Your Brain
You’re having a good round through 14 holes. The kind of round that could turn into a personal best if you can just avoid any big numbers on the way in. Strolling with some trepidation up to the 15th tee, you set down your clubs and look down the fairway. It’s your nemesis hole, a par 4 with a lake on the right off the tee and some vicious sand trouble to the left.
It seems like you never escape this hole without some damage. The last time you played it you put two in the water and made a snowman — NOT good. If somehow you can just sneak past this hole unscathed one time, you think you can finish strong.
As you tee it up and go through your pre-shot routine, a lot of nasty thoughts creep in and set up camp. The first and most obvious is DON’T hit it in the water again. This is followed by a bunch of reactive thoughts like, Don’t think about the water or the ball will go there and Don’t hit a slice, but don’t pull it into the sand.
You’ve been hitting it pretty straight all day, so you’ve chosen a target on the left side of the fairway. But in the...